Cuban armed forces

Female colonel is GAESA VP

January 3, 2012

Juventud Rebelde revealed in this article published last week that a female colonel, Ania Lastre Morera, is first vice-president of the Cuban military’s powerful business holding company, GAESA — Grupo de Administracion Empresarial S.A. (Enterprise Management Group Inc.). (Image: Military rank of Colonel, FAR.)

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Filming military history

January 2, 2012

Cuban state media provides a brief history in a recent article on the Sección Fílmica del Departamento de Instrucción de las FAR (Film Section of the Department of Instruction of the Cuban Armed Forces) created in 1967, which filmed the Cuban military’s missions in Algeria, Guinea, Syria, Angola, Nicaragua, and Vietnam for propaganda purposes. (See here for [...]

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Corruption probe in military-run business

December 13, 2011

Reuters reports: Cuba has detained top executives of the powerful military-run Tecnotex company, broadening a corruption investigation that has already shuttered three foreign firms, according to foreign business sources. Tecnotex’s director Fernando Noy was among those arrested, according to a foreign businessman who deals with the company. “They went right into the Tecnotex office and [...]

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New Cuban political elite

December 4, 2011

Eusebio Mujal-León, professor and former chair of the Department of Government at Georgetown University and the director of the Cuba XXI Project, has written an excellent article (published in the Journal of International Affairs’ Fall/Winter ’11 issue on the authoritarian state) analyzing the new Cuban political elite and exploring how power is distributed between the country’s military [...]

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Sugar ministry dissolved

September 30, 2011

The Council of Ministers, in a meeting held last Saturday, Sept. 24, decided to dissolve the Cuban Ministry of Sugar (MINAZ), replacing it with the Sugar Industry Business Group (Grupo Empresarial de la Agroindustria Azucarera). Orlando Celso García Ramírez, the current Sugar Minister, was appointed in May 2010, when he was then deputy minister replacing [...]

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A rentable general

September 5, 2011

Ex-Cuban Air Force Brigadier General Rafael del Pino, who defected to the United States in 1987, relates his working experience with Army Corps General Julio Casas Regueiro and Casas Regueiro’s collegial direction in the Cuban Armed Forces. (via Cartas de Cuba)

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